Lily had a blood gas done on saturday which was showed her ph at 7.37 which is best she had so on that ground thats when they introced the weaning of 2x 1hour periods off aday.
Some place's wean off pressure not on time off. Lily hasnt had another gas done since then as she has given them no reason to say that she cant cope if however she started to play up whilst off or in the hour after being off then they would repeat her blood gas. She's only on twice weekly fbc and u and e's. She's been on cpap now for 2 wks, well actaully it was bypap for first 2 days so she's been on normal cpap for 12days now.but she's very stable and they wont bleed her unless they feel she is stuggling.
You only do a gas if u intend to change somehting or if u have recently changed somehting so thier no point in babies like Ella.
Hope that hellps. Ive had 4nicu babies before and allmine have been weaned on time off, first they comeoff for an hour then its doubled then eventually they end up on for 6 off for 6 and then on in days off in night till time on cpap is can be stopped. Lily is'nt being weaned to come off as they expect her to need it for another 3-4weeks she is being weaned mearly to manage transfere to our local hosptial, she has to be able to come off for 2.5hrs. When she has been transfered they wont continue to increase time off as it was just for transefer so it will stay same for a while whilst she grows xx